Former Taguig mayor Lino Cayetano and his wife Fille can still appeal the dismissal of their application to transfer their voter registration to the first district of Taguig-Pateros, the Commission on Elections said Friday.
Comelec chairperson George Garcia said there are other remedies for the Cayetanos to appeal their case.
“There are remedies that they can avail,” Garcia said.
According to the Comelec-Election Registration Board, the Cayetano couple failed to comply with the residency requirement due to discrepancies in their passports.
In its 24-page decision, Comelec-ERB said the couple applied to transfer their voter registration last month, indicating they had lived at Pacific Residences in Barangay Ususan for two years and five months.
However, in the documents they submitted, including their passports, Fille’s passport was issued in November 2018, while Lino’s was issued in October 2021, the agency said.
“Both documents were issued well in advance of their purported transfer to Pacific Residence in 2022. As a result, the passports fail to substantiate their assertion of their current address. At best, the passports serve to establish their identity rather than their residential address.”
Cayetano, for his part, said they will appeal the decision of the ERB.
“Fille and I have every right to transfer our registration to the First District of Taguig and Pateros. Our family is from the First District of Taguig and Pateros. My father grew up in Pateros and all of us siblings were registered voters of District 1,” he said.
“We are confident that I will be running as Representative of Taguig and Pateros in the upcoming elections,” he added.
